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It’s the end of my first month at the new job. I’ve been going through orientation for the last month at the main hospital.

I spent two weeks on days and two on nights. This week will be days as well. In a sleep lab, there are things to do 24/7 and I wanted to be familiar with how they run both sides of their operation before I head to small town Paola, KS to start up a new lab.

I’ll be the only technician there initially, working three days of the week (Mon, Tues and Wed… how posh is that). Starting up a new lab takes more forthought than I actually have talent for, but my new colleagues are on the ball.
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I’m sure the title of this post will cause some people to avoid even clicking to read the rest of it, but I assure you, this is not an introspective post about how deep and profound I am. But, it is based on this common question, ‘is life passing you by?’

Consider, for a moment, metaphysics (deep pondering thoughts on the way shit works) and how it would view time. I’ll leave you philosophers who love this area have your say on all the theories and what not, that’s not the point. Just consider something like relativity, and how time seems constant or variable based on your very own perceptions.

Now that you have your own perceptions, I don’t think it would be hard to get you to admit those are perceptions generated by the brain as an interpretation of reality. And I mean very visceral perceptions, such as that bird over there or this computer right here or the color blue or the feeling of agony (such as now maybe… ).
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Disease: a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal or plant. Especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms. (My Mac’s dictionary/thesaurus widget)

Modern medicine, which has yet to yield to future medicine, is a machine of problems, innovations and life changing discoveries. From the ability to provide hearing to those who are deaf, to improving the status of frontal mammary accessories, humans are just trucking along with that ol’ scientific method punching out the answers.
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